Cybersecurity

WW3: Former CIA worker reveals how he ‘stopped DEVASTATING attack from China'

Larry Woetzel is chairman of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission but formally worked as a CIA agent. He revealed how the CIA was on the verge of purchasing 16,000 computers from a Chinese company, that may have been infected with a virus. Mr Woetzel revealed other US government departments were attacked by computers purchased from the same company.

He detailed during Amazon Prime’s “China vs USA: Empires at War” documentary how, in March 2006, his department almost purchased 16,000 computers from Lenovo.

The Chinese corporation had just bought out American company IBM and were ready to supply vital network technology to circulate defence data. 

Some of these computers were meant for networks that circulate secret defence data.